kvell
/kvɛl
/verb [no object] North American informal
Feel happy and proud: forgive me if I’m kvelling, but this boy will make us proud...
- Oy, we're kvelling over here about how many mentions of Jews there are in today's New York Post!
- James kvelled over this and I really enjoyed it.
- Here was the great equalizer: we all kvelled in unison.
Origin
1960s: from Yiddish kveln, from Middle High German, literally 'well up'.
- low-class
- low comedian
- low comedy
- low-cost
- low council house
- Low Countries
- low country
- low-cut
- low day
- low definition
- low-density
- low-density lipoprotein
- low-down
- low-downer
- Low Dutchman
- lowe
- low-earth
- low-ebbed
- Lowell, Amy
- Lowell, James Russell
- Lowell, Percival
- Lowell, Robert
- low emission
- low emissions
- lowen